Indiana counties inundated with voter registrations thanks to the hotly contested Democratic presidential primary are struggling to process the applications in time to send their poll books to printers, and some say a state system designed to clean up voter rolls is hindering their progress.

Mitch Daniels and Joe Kernan's contrasting rsums are part of an intriguing campaign that is one of the most competitive of the 11 governor's races nationally. The campaign has turned into a slugfest over jobs, government scandal and corporate greed, and is shaping up to be a close contest.